Meanwhile, as part of its nationwide anti-corruption drive, CBI sleuths recovered a total of Rs 3.5 crore during searches at 12 places in the city till early Saturday morning, sources said.

The CBI officials unearthed the amount in both cash as well as immovable properties during searches since Friday at the premises of government officials belonging to Customs, Excise, Bombay Port Trust and Oil and Natural Gas Commission, CBI Joint Director (Mumbai), S P Srivastava told PTI on Saturday.

"Based on some information, we will also search a few lockers belonging to these officials, on Monday," Srivastava said.